PIONEERING INSTINCTS: Karyshma

Feb 9, Pittsburgh: Karyshma, a pioneer of the new genre of Indo-American music. 7 pm at Synod Hall, 125 N Craig St. (Oakland). Tel Manish Vora 412-847-1470. Contact: aid@andrew.cmu.edu

Icons and Illusions at Gallery ArtsIndia

New York

Feb 9, New York: SAMAR and Netip-NY Bone Marrow Drive. 12 pm at NY Blood Center, 67th Street. Contact: Juhi Mehta cr@netip-ny.org. A joint effort to get South Asians typed for SAMAR’s bone marrow registration. You could potentially save a life so do not miss the opportunity.

Feb 9, New York: Shuvaprasanna’s “Icons and Illusions”. 12 pm at Gallery ArtsIndia, 206 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor. Tel: Pooja Badlani 212 267-202. Contact: info@artsindia.com. A solo show featuring Shuvaprasanna’s oeuvre.

Florida

Feb 4, Stuart: Chaturam at The Lyric Theater. Tel: 612-824-1968. Contact: ragamala@aol.com. The production illustrates the evolution of Bharatanatyam.

Texas

Feb 8, Houston: Business Forecast Lunch. 2 pm at Four Seasons Hotel, 1300 Lamar Street. Tel: Rajesh Salem, 713-571-7957. Reserve your seats by February 1, 2002.
n Feb 8, Houston: Jeevan Ki Aakaar (Shapes of Life). 7.30 pm at Heinen Theater, Houston Downtown. Tel: Biju Jose, 281 650-1149. The programme will demonstrate that the East can meet with the West. Hosted by: Urban India Beat, Inc.

Feb 8, Austin: The Children We Sacrifice, a film about the incestuous sexual abuse of South Asian girls, followed by a discussion. 6 pm at Gearing Hall Auditorium 105, UT Campus. Tel: Soumya Bhat, 356 156-1565 Contact: sbhat@austin-safeplace.org.

Minnesota

Feb 8, Minneapolis: Witnessing Worlds at Pangea World Theatre. Dancer Ananya Chatterjee, poet Li Young Lee, painter-sculptor Seitu Jones and director Dipankar Mukherjee explore the challenges of the future.

Oregon

An evening of Carnatic music

Feb 5, Portland: Reading of Chitra Divakaruni’s Vine of Desire at Annie Bloom’s. Also at the Esmerelda Bookstore in Del Mar, CA, on February 6, at the Women and Children First in Chicago, IL, on the 7th and at Anderson’s in Napierville, IL, on February 10.

Feb 8, Portland: Raji Gopalakrishnan, vocals. 8 pm at First Christian Church, 1315 SW Broadway. Tel: Rasika 503-531-7266. Contact: info@rasika.org. Accompanying her are R. Hemalatha (violin) and Poongulam Subramaniam (mridangam).